Processed: Re: Bug#833030: perl: use base badly/mistakenly broken by CVE-2016-1238 fix

2016-08-04 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 important Bug #833030 [perl] perl: use base badly/mistakenly broken by CVE-2016-1238 fix Severity set to 'important' from 'grave' -- 833030: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833030 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org

Bug#833030: perl: use base badly/mistakenly broken by CVE-2016-1238 fix

2016-08-04 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Control: severity -1 important On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 01:53:05PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Thanks for the report. I'm sorry to hear that this caused problems for you. > > The base.pm change was not accidental. It was discussed when these > patches were prepared. The discussion is unfortunately n

Bug#833030: perl: use base badly/mistakenly broken by CVE-2016-1238 fix

2016-08-01 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 05:09:43AM +, Chris Travers wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.14.2-21+deb7u4 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > use base died complaining that base package was empty > The problem was introduced by the fix noted in the title. The problem i

Bug#833030: perl: use base badly/mistakenly broken by CVE-2016-1238 fix

2016-07-30 Thread Chris Travers
Package: perl Version: 5.14.2-21+deb7u4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? We updated our systems with the latest security patches (and then spent a day